Hey everyone, I hope all of you are staying safe! I just wanted to say thanks so much for supporting my content through this weird time in our world and especially thanks for watching this video. July is going to be a big month as I have two more major videos coming out, both Abandoned episodes. Stay tuned!
@QuietJ0Y
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for what you do. I support a different KZitem content producer a month. I will see you on patreon soon. Still want a BSF PIN!
@justinflanders7754
4 жыл бұрын
stay safe and healthy, Also excited for your other projects to
@BrightSunFilms
4 жыл бұрын
@@QuietJ0Y Thank you! I'm working on those pins!
@callumneil258
4 жыл бұрын
Will we be getting anohter abbonded episode soon?
@MTARaylz
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jake for everything
@jobic4207
4 жыл бұрын
I wrote a case study about Kodak’s issues and downfall at university which made watching this video twice as enjoyable
@HoursFreeAOLsp
4 жыл бұрын
Did you learn anything this second time around? lol 😂
@CanadianB.O.W
4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it just great when that happens
@mockingspongebob773
4 жыл бұрын
same
@venomousnate7263
4 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool to hear that
@andwhoareyou2892
4 жыл бұрын
So you're a socialist?
@BrandanTheBroker
4 жыл бұрын
I was always surprised Kodak didn't strike a deal with Apple or Samsung to become their camera makers for the phones
@pierluigimaienza4170
3 жыл бұрын
Rumors said that It was close to make something with Motorola ...but nothing of real happened.
@cbly
3 жыл бұрын
Kodak didn't even make their own digital cameras. Most were rebranded Chinon products.
@chrisgraham2904
3 жыл бұрын
Most Kodak camera manufacture was moved to China years ago.
@faizalf119
3 жыл бұрын
Because kodak never make their own camera. Camera enthusiasts will always point at brands like nikon, Canon, leica, zeiss, and more for better camera.
@chrisgraham2904
3 жыл бұрын
@@faizalf119 Your totally wrong about that. Kodak manufactured all their still cameras, movie cameras and projectors for about 80 years until competition grew from Japan and China. The Rochester (U.S.A.) manufacturing facility, the Kodak Toronto facility, where I worked for 29 years, and several other facilities around the world manufactured and assembled cameras. The need for competitive global manufacturing did occur around the time that digital photography exploded, so Kodak digital apparatus were manufactured by other camera manufacturers or dedicated Asian Kodak manufacturers. Kodak followed the vision of George Eastman to produce economical photographic equipment to make photography simple, affordable and available to the general public. Kodak never saw themselves in the high-end camera market, but was happy to provide the film products for those cameras you mentioned. People are rarely aware of the scope of products that Kodak and The Eastman Chemical Company produced. Cameras and photographic apparatus contributed less than 5 percent to Kodak's total sales.
@maxsmodels
3 жыл бұрын
They had a great advertising campaign "It's a Kodak moment". I had a Brownie 8mm movie camera and countless instamatics. Great memories.
@stoutlager6325
4 жыл бұрын
Kodak summer 2020: We make pharmaceuticals now?
@ibm_businessman6033
4 жыл бұрын
No, Greedy CEO's with inside trading just fucked it up.
@faseiolasec9770
3 жыл бұрын
"To my friends, my work is done, why wait?" Jesus christ, didn't expect that emotional dropkick
@Itsaboutthewaterlife
3 жыл бұрын
@@ibm_businessman6033 Yeah. You would've thought that the CEO would've tried to play it smart.
@thegaminglottle
4 жыл бұрын
9:00 Jim halpert makes an appearance when he's not selling paper he's selling Kodak
@Stubby7923
4 жыл бұрын
came here to comment the same thing, lol
@strongereveryday2302
4 жыл бұрын
I saw it too! hahaha
@jenimbusy6765
4 жыл бұрын
No movie holds my unabated attention like an old Kodak reel & projector. I love the skips, random fuzz, the odd colors of fading...... There is nothing like them. ❤️🥰😍
@andrewsmithphoto
4 жыл бұрын
I am kind of torn on this one, I often use Kodak film to this day and love the colors it produces, which to me feel more vibrant than the results from many digital cameras ... but I know charging nearly $10 for one roll of film is not a sustainable business model. On top of that playing off on nostalgia does not win new customers and will not retain current customers a few years down the road. I wish Kodack would succeed... but it also does not seem very likely given the volatility of trends and the cost and inconvenience of using film in this age. To me it really feels like Kodak has not learned a thing since the late 1990's.
@megamuffin15
4 жыл бұрын
Kodak's impact on Rochester can't be understated. It's been so critical to the city's entire economy for decades.
@chrisgraham2904
3 жыл бұрын
Many other companies established themselves in Rochester because Kodak was there.
@tafinzer
Жыл бұрын
And now Rochester is considered In the top tier of impoverished and dangerous cities in the US. I'm glad my parents didn't live to see what happened to our city.
@SaturnCanuck
4 жыл бұрын
Dude, I could not say this any better than you did. As someone in the film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, Kodak's demise can be summed up with one word -- COMPLACENCY.
@otakubullfrog1665
4 жыл бұрын
It's weird to think back on the days when you'd go on a trip or to an event and had a limited number of photos you could take and you wouldn't know how they came out until you got home and had them developed. It's also weird to see that some parking lots still have a structure that was obviously one of those standalone one hour photo places.
@chrisgraham2904
3 жыл бұрын
George Eastman didn't invent the first camera or the first film, but he did move the marvel of photography from the hands of the professional to average Joe public. George once stated that he envisioned a time in the future when every person would carry a camera, just as they carry a fountain pen now. His vision came true, but he didn't see the camera being integrated into every cell phone.
@kuceracm
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Kodak had realised the lightning they caught in the bottle in inventing the first digital camera in the 1970's, and had actually invested the time and money into perfecting the technology THEN, instead of running away in fear of the technology and having to then play catch-up in the early 2000's when other brands had already surpassed them in the technology. Perhaps the digital age would have arrived a decade earlier. They only have themselves to blame.
@jameshartley95
4 жыл бұрын
so true. i think sadly kodak got the point of been run by the investors. lets milk the cow dry f*ck everyone else
@sanfrancisco9661
4 жыл бұрын
A very successful company and smart leaders evaluated by Cryssa Rosa in 20/20 hindsight. LOL. What is CR successful in ? Anything? Or just opinions?
@kcgunesq
4 жыл бұрын
No, that would not have happened. At best, they could have been a few years ahead of the market. Because even if they developed a great camera, it wouldn't have had the batteries, storage media and computers capable of supporting and utilizing the data. How would you have viewed or shared the pictures?
@detroitcoffeeartdetroit6502
4 жыл бұрын
@@kcgunesq - AA batteries ran most cameras until the late 2000s/early 2010s (P&S or many DSLR). Photoshop initial release was 1990, Storage media could have been created by Kodka instead of Sandisk/Intel/Toshiba - CompactFlash/Miniature Card/SmartMedia. To view and share maybe invest in a dominant Operating System at the time or a simple solution, purchase Commodore Computer which would have gained their multimedia Amiga computer... But Kodak poured billions into Advanced Photo System that launched in 1996
@kcgunesq
4 жыл бұрын
@@detroitcoffeeartdetroit6502 Actually, my recollection of cameras through the mid-aughts was that while AA's were common, they were far from universal. I know we owned a couple of Panasonic and Sony P&S's that used proprietary batteries. My older manual cameras used button cells. My D300 could use AA's with an expensive adapter, but shipped with a proprietary battery. But the main point is that without the processors and memory that didn't exist, it would have remained a niche even if they somehow developed sensors that were several generations better than what we had in 2000 (e.g., the sensor in the D300), as very few people would have been willing to wait minutes for each photo to process or display.
@SudokuBro
4 жыл бұрын
"Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!" -Paul Simon
@user-mc5qd6hc7n
4 жыл бұрын
I was actually thinking of that song when the Kodachrome label came on! lol
@Ron4885
4 жыл бұрын
I remember :-)
@HighSpeedNoDrag
4 жыл бұрын
Better Days.
@MrJoeytony
4 жыл бұрын
I remember when Kodak was part of every Disneyland Map.
@mightypupsfanboy
4 жыл бұрын
True I remember that
@phdep1
4 жыл бұрын
Walkin' through the city, lookin' oh so pretty...I've just got to find my way.
@ryandoles425
4 жыл бұрын
Since I live in Rochester NY, this is familiar to me
@chrislongbeard
4 жыл бұрын
I need to get up there see friends and get a plate from Nick Tahous. Great city.
@JKSSubstandard
4 жыл бұрын
yo
@ryandoles425
4 жыл бұрын
Chris Longbeard never been 😆
@Thejwill24
4 жыл бұрын
One of their current factories is behind where I used to live here in Rochester, so this is familiar territory for me. Not to mention that my senior paper in college was Kodak's effects on Rochester.
@LeoKatzman
4 жыл бұрын
Same
@romanbaranovichi5375
4 жыл бұрын
After seeing Kodak in the intro for so many years it’s cool to see the actual story
@omgubler
4 жыл бұрын
I'm a total camera and photography nerd and absolutely loved this. I own more Kodaks than I can count. I'm always so weirded out when I see some low budget random Kodak electronic device in a resale or outlet store. It's almost like an identity crises. I'm glad that they at least still make some film products, it makes one less (film) thing for people to hoard and resale for 10x more. (But of course even now there are other and often more affordable options than Kodak for film 😅)
@airborneace
Жыл бұрын
I still shoot 35mm and there's nothing like a roll of color Kodak film. It just has a quality all its own that digital hasn't fully captured yet
@liamwatson5125
4 жыл бұрын
I used to go to the Kodak plant in Toronto to have my grandfather’s film developed. It’s been gone since 2006 and is now becoming a transit hub.
@facebookcom-ej7dm
3 жыл бұрын
I lived at Weston Rd and Eglinton Ave and passed that building twice a day for work. I’m so glad they kept and moved the building instead of demolishing it.
@user-od9iz9cv1w
3 жыл бұрын
I worked there as a high tech exec from 1998 to 2000. Since software was not a core business we were in a corner of building #5 where the movie film guys were. It was fascinating to see Hollywood directors coming in to see demos of new film product. They sold $100m worth of movie film per year in Toronto. The manufacturing plants were also interesting. Imagine a 96 acre parcel of land in the middle of Toronto still dedicated to photo film/paper manufacturing in 2000. But before condos could go up they had to clean up the hazardous waste areas. In the 1900s they just dumped the chemicals into Black Creek.
@skiller189x4
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely a classic example of a company outpaced by technology...same as the typewriter companies. BUT, I can say that my parent’s old Kodachrome slides from the 1950’s have the most vibrant and captivating colors that can never be captured with digital photography. I’m in the process of trying to preserve them now...
@MagmaTrevor
Жыл бұрын
I remember using those little printers as a kid waiting for each color to be processed. We were a very Kodak driven family so it’s crazy to just see them wiped out now.
@legalizeraccoons24
4 жыл бұрын
i’m so glad you made this video! as an upstate new yorker i’ve always been interested in kodak as a company because it feels so close to home. having one of my favorite channels talk about it is so nice! thank you for all that you do 💕
@lucasrem1870
2 жыл бұрын
This guy is telling all about the US, but then Fuji? Fuji is bigger outside the US, but KODAK is not for the US only! Weirdo people! Why you need this community? What is he telling? How big was Kodak? lol 1990 was Digital! Fuji took them over in 1970 ish already! Demanding Kodak Chrome services killed them!
@blue39503
2 жыл бұрын
I still have my Nikon SLR. It may be obsolete now, but it helped me make memories for 20 years.
@goalhorncrazy9779
4 жыл бұрын
That intro was 100% nostalgic for 80s and 90s kids
@eaganwoodward
4 жыл бұрын
Yo if you ever do a follow up o can get you an interview with my grandfather. He was pretty high up in the company
@BrightSunFilms
4 жыл бұрын
Shoot me an email, I’d love to! Contact@brightsunfilms.ca
@marianamtzpichardo812
4 жыл бұрын
WhereTab _ Great idea!! Interviews w/ exworkers to now their experiencies 🤩
@PumaM90
4 жыл бұрын
Oh this sounds interesting!
@-NateTheGreat
4 жыл бұрын
I worked at Ritz Camera in the mall in 2000. What a great time to be in photography. It was half film and half digital. Best of both worlds.
@theawesomer
4 жыл бұрын
I sure wish I had bought some Kodak stock after watching this.
@BrightSunFilms
4 жыл бұрын
Me too...
@pablocous1312
4 жыл бұрын
Kodak took another big hit recently, their stock went down hellaaa
@nicholasdean3467
4 жыл бұрын
Could have bought any stock this year and made massive profit
@Eltonmorris
4 жыл бұрын
nicholas dean not 3000%
@joshuajoe1419
4 жыл бұрын
Why did the stock go up 700%?
@andyinmichigan9058
4 жыл бұрын
great vid Jake AND BSF!! quite interesting. I was born in 80 so i feel like I was on the tail end of one tech culture to another I kind of got to see stuff as it was , like cassettes , corded phones, CRT tvs, PC's weren't really a thing, Atari was was big, then eventually NES.....etc, etc.... then through the 80's and 90's all of that slowly went away or transformed to what we have today. I feel like a lot of people probably 5-10 years younger than me just wouldn't know even half of it. Pretty Crazy I think there's definitely still a place for film photography/video. Kodak was pretty slow to realizing that. sure they tried with digital but were slow to respond but maybe they just never were going to be a digital giant regardless. looks like they're doing pretty well with that they're doing now , but for the most part i think in a lot of people's minds they'll always be a film company
@MattyIce1996
4 жыл бұрын
My city had the 68 worlds fair and one of the abandoned pavilions still standing is the old Kodak one.
@chrisblake4198
2 жыл бұрын
I went to college in Rochester in 1991, and I can't really convey just how much of the city was dominated by Kodak. It was wild. The city was lucky to have spawned so many other tech companies around Kodak, otherwise losing them would have killed it.
@chrisblake4198
2 жыл бұрын
As to their collapse, I think it's too simplistic to say they were delusional or blind. When it comes to photography, they were the 800lb gorilla, and while the market was changing, they still felt like anything they did would be a massive force in changing it. It was quite literally killing the goose that laid the golden egg, and they weren't prepared for that kind of risk. They were looking at their peers like IBM and Xerox and their struggles, and couldn't see how to handle big transitions better. They unfortunately delayed big decisions until they were taken out of their hands.
@ConnorMartin-uk1oe
6 ай бұрын
did you go to UR or RIT?
@faizalf119
3 жыл бұрын
As a photography enthusiast who use both film and digital even with kodak and fuji stopping making films it gave rise to "indie" film roll makers who made film rolls for enthusiasts. Of course I still mourn the loss of the kodachrome and fujichrome line.
@jameswright8948
3 жыл бұрын
As a lifelong resident of Rochester, NY, I have had the strange and unfortunate privilege of witnessing the demise of Kodak. I remember the 1,600-acre Kodak Park manufacturing complex at its peak in the 80s/early 90s. I have also been present at the demolition of many of its giant manufacturing buildings in the 2000s. The complex now sits as a shell of its former self, though in recent times it has seen new life serving other purposes. I will say that Kodak Park is (was) an absolute marvel, a self-contained city with its own power plants (it had 2), its own railroad system, its own sewer system, its own fire/police force, etc... Each time I drive through the enormous complex I still cannot believe a place like this ever existed. Something truly mind-blowing and mysterious about it. Thank you for this documentary. Very well done...
@samalbertson3210
4 жыл бұрын
Best channel ever, so interesting and entertaining
@pucirepu
4 жыл бұрын
As a consumer product company, Kodak reached 4 billion dollars in sales by the end of 60s, and 16.3 billions by the 90s, really astronomical for its time. All of this plus its innovative corporate culture in its early years, and how it revolutionized and dominated normal people’s lives, all reminded me of Apple’s trillion dollar worth and its effect on today’s people. At least Kodak was successfully for over a hundred years before it got too comfortable and failed. Compared it to how people is already criticizing Apple for being less innovative and getting too comfortable- it made me wonder if the history is going to repeat itself, and maybe in less than 50 years Apple would also fail and become a remotely familiar name to the younger generations. NOTHING is ever too big to fail..
@onrr1726
3 жыл бұрын
My mom had a brother who worked at Kodak he invented the medicine capsule in 1970's. I used work with a few people who used to work for Eastman Kodak. Many got layed off from the paper mill they had in Rochester, NY. With in days of the layoffs demolition crews were on sight taking the paper mill down. I also worked with several people who worked for American Locomotive (ALCO) who built a few locomotives for Kodak. Alco closed in 1979.
@emmaceleste_
2 жыл бұрын
It would be fun to see a revisit of this brand. Kodak has recently reintroduced previously discontinued films
@Knuckle_Sandwich_Hand_Wraps
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there will ever be a video about KZitem going ‘Bankrupt’.
@Madmark50484
4 жыл бұрын
You’ll see it on bitchute
@Berkeloid0
4 жыл бұрын
It's pretty rare because businesses tend to be sold/merged/absorbed before it gets that bad. Remember Google Video? It wasn't doing too well so Google bought KZitem and merged the two. In the next 10-20 years something will come along that gains more popularity than KZitem and eventually it will be sold off and the brand used for something else.
@whosjozikolnik
3 жыл бұрын
@@Berkeloid0 it sounds so unreal now but I'm sure it will eventually happen
@michaelrmurphy2734
3 жыл бұрын
Oh yes there will be. Its simply a matter of time... Do you really think Facebook and Google will be around in sixty years time? Hardly...
@carieyounginsurance
3 жыл бұрын
I am hoping FAKEBOOK will! Terrible to the 1/2 their customer base who they are supposed to serve and made them successful in the first place
@grimsville2501
4 жыл бұрын
I love bankrupt!!!
@ClubAmerica92
4 жыл бұрын
2050: Bankrupt: Amazon
@chrisyanover1777
3 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind, Amazon just started out selling books. You either innovate or you die!
@DalmationProductions
4 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that some of these Companies are gonna file for either Chapter 11 or Chapter 7 because of the Pandemic
@vickysmith1996
4 жыл бұрын
They've already started. Chuck E. Cheese being one of them. They weren't doing so hot before hand but losing out on months of revenue did them in.
@JDXWrestling
4 жыл бұрын
@@vickysmith1996 add JC Penney and Neiman Marcus to the list, both too struggled with debt before the pandemic. The only one i know so far thats going chapter 7 is Pier 1 Imports and i'm not sure if they've been able to start liquidating yet
@sanfrancisco9661
4 жыл бұрын
I just read about a company whose mission is to take over failed companies on their last breath and liquidate them. Thats their expertise: they liquidate other companies and sell of the assets, etc. The article said that the head of that company wouldn't name names but that there are about two dozen companies in the liquidation pipeline "some of whom are very well known." That would probably include Macy's .
@thenewmisterwehrmacht893
4 жыл бұрын
Pizza Hut is going die.
@ShawnMeira
3 жыл бұрын
My father used to be a position or two below the CIO of Kodak before he was layed off in 2014. So this was an interesting video to watch having grown up with insight into what he thought about what was happening with kodak as it was happening.
@tombank7662
4 жыл бұрын
Kodak was a big name in my dads younger days. He built his home darkroom using all the Kodak products. He learned fast but the thing is it did not turn out to be our futue. Kodak just doesn't cut it in the world of digital photography.
@davinp
4 жыл бұрын
Now that we have smartphones with cameras built in, the average consumer isn't buying a digital camera. Only professional photographers and maybe some that have a hobby taking photos are buying cameras
@pandajunesays
4 жыл бұрын
I worked as a photo tech for 4 years while working at Target. We only used Kodak. Processing film will always be a favorite memory of mine. There were a lot of steps and chemicals involved but seeing the process take place from a roll in a camera to an actual photograph on paper was always so amazing to see :)
@RicoGalassi
4 жыл бұрын
the nostalgia hit hard in this video
@the-NightStar
4 жыл бұрын
Can you also do an episode about the one time biggest anime localization and redistrubution company in the US, A.D VIsion, and how they went bankrupt? It's a very interesting and at times almost unbelievable story about how their hubris and their method of spending extravagantly and constantly creating failed spin-off brands plus a combination of anime piracy and buying the rights to ANY anime they could get their hands on, for a shrinking market share did them in. The mass closings of stores like Sam Goody, Suncoast and Media Play also ruined them as well as a lot of internal drama. Also in their final years they bought up a ton of kids shows specifically to broadcast them on television, but couldn't sell a single one to any cable station. It's a fascinating story, really.
@acharletta
3 жыл бұрын
Another Kodak moment is when they invented the OLED tv and again could not see the forest through the trees and sold the technology to LG.
@taroman7100
3 жыл бұрын
Not cool!
@NakulDalakoti
3 ай бұрын
Kodak was one of the few American company which had a big impact in India. Our first camera was a Kodak KB-10 which my father got for just 1000Rupees. Posters of the Bollywood movies had the line "Shot on Kodak film and Camera" written at the bottom. Here at one point Camera= Kodak. We miss Kodak here in India too.
@edwardjackson1418
3 жыл бұрын
I used to pick up loads of Kodak Film, as a trucker, this was a good company, to haul for!
@metraforce441
4 жыл бұрын
I still have one of their cameras passed down from my grandparents I don’t know what model it is but it’s pretty big!
@cameronsantiago3155
4 жыл бұрын
Bankrupt are easily my favorite series on this channel
@swordofseals33
4 жыл бұрын
I live over in Old Forge, which isnt too far from Rochester. We still have a fair bit of Kodak stuff at the local Kinney Drugs. Our photo printer is a Kodak and we always have like 15 of those Kodak disposable cameras and SO many puzzles lying around on the shelves and in the back. While Kodak is on it's way into that good night, theres still a lot of nostalgia and loyalty to Kodak up north here
@cavegamer5989
3 жыл бұрын
I still have my grandmas instamatic kodak camera from the 60's it still works, which goes to show the real quality they put into their products back then...
@AtheistOrphan
3 жыл бұрын
I remember them. They used 126-format film cartridges.
@avrinrose5457
8 ай бұрын
In my fictional world, this company never bankrupt and still successful
@EVIL-C
5 ай бұрын
Leave the fantasy and come back to reality.
@ethanpinella3074
2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather worked for kodak in the 60s and 70s, and he has a few patents attributed to him from mostly the sixties regarding printing technology
@caitlinpatterson8879
4 жыл бұрын
Haven’t even watched the video yet but I LOVE BSF!! Can’t wait for more content! Also, love that you are Canadian 🇨🇦
@2061526
3 жыл бұрын
without Kodak, my parents wouldn't have captured my childhood days.
@ganglians
3 жыл бұрын
This hit me hard man
@RoyMatzem
4 ай бұрын
Not true. Without Kodak another company would have, probably Fujifilm. Technology never stops
@tommyholden602
3 жыл бұрын
I shot my Junior and Senior Year Thesis Films on Kodak. I went to the executive office in L.A. and pitched my script and they gave me 8+ free rolls of 16mm film both times. They did this for many students and it was super generous of them. They were super nice in person as well. Really sad they fell down so hard since then. This was in 2008-2009.
@FirstOnRaceDayCapri2904
3 жыл бұрын
As an analog photography fan, i'm very happy they are still making film, and have even brought back a couple they killed off.
@75west
3 жыл бұрын
great story! my wife’s mother was one of eight children, they grew up in Belleville Ontario. In the 1930’s, some of them went to Rochester NY to work for Kodak.
@valerianleforge
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you SO much for teaching me something today. Prototype digital camera in 1974! That is incredible
@pete3050
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day Kodak was an icon. Good research done by Bright Sun Films
@AydenSchofield
3 жыл бұрын
I have 3 old Kodak brownies, all filled with new just opened Kodak film, on the shelf behind me
@chibimaho273
2 жыл бұрын
I love this channel give a respectable content
@trollnoobs178
4 жыл бұрын
another well video by briggggggght sunnnnnnnnnn fillllllllllllllllmzzzzzz
@keeseong2980
3 жыл бұрын
Hindsight is always 20/20 and Monday morning quarterback is always easy. Many companies went through that and many will follow. When you own the market, why change. When the market changes, you are too big to change on a dime. Visionary leadership is a rare commodity.
@bret9741
3 жыл бұрын
I’m approaching 60. I never could have imagined the destruction of Kodak, GE, Sears, Montgomery Wards, Tandy, Bethlehem Steel, Pan Am, TWA, And so so many other iconic companies.
@HydraDominus
Жыл бұрын
kodak going under decimated rochester, we still haven't recovered completely. wild
@vincentsolomitajr4029
4 жыл бұрын
I think it’s sad the way Kodak turned out I remember growing up taking pictures through the 80’s and 90’s using Kodak or Fuji 1600 speed film.Still to this day I have three 35 millimeter cameras!!!
@ShadowWolf-wy4nj
4 жыл бұрын
I've grown up in the Rochester NY area and have watched the decline of Kodak over the years. The company it self used to be almost it's own city of buildings back in the day, it's just sad to see it be once such an icon of my home town only to become a shell of its former self.
@averysmith1599
4 жыл бұрын
This video makes me genuinely sad, I am from Rochester, NY, and seeing what it was vs what our city and the industrial park looks like now is depressing.
@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv
6 ай бұрын
Honestly, shots from film cameras are still better, it’s showing more natural images, unlike digital cameras.
@Sierra-208
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the good old days of having to have camera film developed. I kinda miss those days
@xl000
3 жыл бұрын
0:41 Bandaid and Purell are mostly known in the US market though, possibly a few others, but are unknown for example in the EU
@AntonioCostaRealEstate
4 жыл бұрын
Fuji Film and Agfa were around much longer then this video implies. They were in South America years before they made to the US Market. Fuji, in particular , became omnipresent in Brazil around the 70’s thanks to the country’s large Japanese community who was instrumental in Fuji’s development of its retail presence. I actually temped ar their film development plant back in the early 80’s. Back then stores with large processing machinery, such as the ones we saw in American drugstores, were non existent , só films were sent to be processed and then returned to stores. Management was all Japanese , mostly from the mother country, with their mixing in of sanseis. Eventually they would move to a larger regional HQ , which sites empty nowadays. I worked in maintenance , and the kids at the lab, mostly non Japanese , would call us in when a super 8 honeymoon X rated cane through. We would then shut the doors at a dark room, and run the flick to a rowdy audience of post teens. If not customers knew .... Anyways they are still around, but the film division is defunct. Agfa, is nowhere to be found.
@rays3812
3 жыл бұрын
Kodak and Blockbuster.. Goes to show, failure to innovate and adapt to trends can sink your company.
@birdysama2980
Жыл бұрын
i work at a pharmacy and people still ask (pretty much everyday) for waterproof kodak/fuji camera. Especially in summer due to our proximity to a huge waterpark. Loosing a 1000$+ phone in a park or dropping it in water if its not waterproof is far worst than loosing a 30$ disposable camera so people still ask for them.
@hankhouke
3 жыл бұрын
Here is an insight no one knows about. I worked in a camera store part time 1970-1990. We sold Kodak everything. Around 1975 Kodak began suicide marketing. They grouped all products, and began setting "minimum order limits". Sellers could no longer just order what they could sell, but had to order at least $1000 of any group. The "groups" we were selling were; Cameras, Film, Chemicals, Paper, Movie Cameras, and Projectors. So if we ordered less than $6000 at a time, we lost our dealership for that "group". Large stores like Kmart with National warehousing took over, but didn't carry all those "groups" for long. Long story short, we went down with Kodak, because the owner was a WWII vet and would not sell Asian or German stuff.
@peanutbutterisfu
3 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the 90’s everyone’s parents worked for Kodak. They invented the digital camera but waited way too long to keep up with it. Now it’s rare to know anyone that works there. There are so many massive abandoned buildings all over the county, they are huge business complex’s. It’s too bad they didn’t have a better ceo in the 90’s they could have designed the best digital camera and just really got involved in the digital era. They waited too long and now they just seem like you grandpa’s company.
@bobbydorou8438
3 жыл бұрын
Kodachrom the best colour film and 35mm transparency film just holds the colour after 50years. Their graphic arts film was just excellent, shame on Kodak's demise. I think that their 1st factory overseas was based in Harrow north west London.
@leenmafea7908
3 жыл бұрын
1990an my student life in University used Kodak..Fuji Film & manual Camera to do photography Assignment. From Leen Mafea Malaysia
@ctaukus9146
4 жыл бұрын
Love the new intro. Keep up the good work
@Studio731
4 жыл бұрын
Before glass , they used to make photos on tins. I actually have one that dates sometime during the late Victorian. Very cool stuff.
@DTPGMedia585
2 жыл бұрын
i live in rochester ny. They have a presence here still. But on the abandoned look of there building at lake and ridge
@bossman4799
4 жыл бұрын
I live in Rochester and know older people who worked at Kodak or had something to do with them. Basically was where you worked if you worked in the city for years.
@jpslayermayor9293
4 жыл бұрын
Important point you missed. Kodak didnt miss the train on digital cameras, its just that the profit in electronics is much much lower than film which has to be repurchased after every roll. Think about it, digital cameras are purchased just once, and the "film"or media for pictures were basically free. They never could have made even half the profits they made on film if they cornered the entire digital market.
@willypro4949
Жыл бұрын
Is also important that management was stuck in the old ways because they thought the old ways were "irreplaceable" I mean it took mankind centuries to switch from film to digital and even now some industries (like Hollywood) still use it
@genesisvilla9831
4 жыл бұрын
9:03 john krasinski i can’t🥺
@ahighervibe4086
3 жыл бұрын
Being from Rochester, New York, it's sad to see this video. I remember seeing a bustling Kodak Park In the 79s and 80s... And witnessed the slow decline into Bankruptcy. Kodak Park was HUGE.... Miles and miles of factories in Greece, NY near Rochester. Now... It's dead. One thing I will NOT MISS though, is the stench of pollution Kodak spewed during their heydey... It was NASTY!
@cbly
3 жыл бұрын
it still smells like ethylene glycol when the wind is just right
@blueocean9305
3 жыл бұрын
Xerox was started by two Kodak engineers. They eventually thought they were in the document business and also failed in the market. Many of these business never re-ask, "What business are we in? What do the Customer want?"
@tristan6509
3 жыл бұрын
Xerox was also pretty innovative but they fell into the same fate I mean they were the inventors of the graphical user interface and the computer mouse, they made a computer and OS that's more advanced and powerful 12 years before windows 1.0 was released, it's kinda sad how stupid CEOs are...
@PsPuNkS
4 жыл бұрын
14:22 YAY RMS OLYMPIC GOT A CAMEO!!!!
@Jedi817
4 жыл бұрын
Ironically, they sold off their consumer-imaging division to their UK Pension Plan to settle a loan, and this became Kodak Alaris: a separate company that still uses the brand and logos. Any time you happen to see a Kodak branded photo kiosk, it's actually Alaris. Also, in the late 90s they spent millions on an ambitious internet project that was basically a prototype Instagram... you could share and like photos, etc, simple but essential stuff and there was nothing like it at the time. My dad was on a team working on that project when their CFO came in and canned the entire thing. They had to pull the plug on a huge server infrastructure they had custom-built for it and it was cannibalized for other purposes. I can only wonder what it would have been like if they launched it. The city of Rochester had nearly died with Kodak as well. My roommates and I joked that if George Eastman came back to life today and saw how mismanaged his company is, he would shoot himself again.
@ameliafornari6012
3 жыл бұрын
LA MIA KODAK DIPENDENTE DAL 1964 AL 1996 COME SENIORS A CINISELLO B. MILANO...AMELIA FORNARI 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
@kbhasi
4 жыл бұрын
7:15 The 100 and 150 were made by Kodak, but the 200 model shown in that photo was made by Fujifilm! Both companies had their own Windows compatible versions of QuickTake cameras, though. 15:44 I've a feeling that it's the result of Kodak licensing their brand out to other companies.
@RedLink27
4 жыл бұрын
Also just to add.. Crazy how some of the biggest companies of the 20th century can be so easily decimated in the 21st
@judah987654321
4 жыл бұрын
Born & raised in Rochester Ny I drive past Kodak tower multiple times a day
@TheCommonGentry
4 жыл бұрын
This truly feels like a Netflix documentary series with that intro ;'D
@kittenmatchvids6440
2 жыл бұрын
0:39, there is an economic term for this, it is called 'genericide'
@optimixxx
4 жыл бұрын
consumer imagining or commercial ? In 2011 they were on a cruise ship - Explorer of the Seas - they looked happy. I was the A/V person onboard who set up the ice rink aka studio B for them. After several days of preparing the venue, a person who did not speak proper english got on stage. There was no sign that something was wrong with the company which could have been saved by its employees.
@matthewbanta3240
4 жыл бұрын
I think it's important to remember what Kodak did. Before Kodak, no one smiled in photographs. Partly this was due to long shutter speeds and the difficulty of holding a smile for several minutes, but mostly this was because photographs were serious. Your picture was expensive and your image was being saved for posterity. So no one would do anything as whimsical as to smile in a photograph. But after Kodak, everyone had a camera and could take a picture at any time. People wanted to remember happy times of the past. So Kodak produced a world in which everyone wants to smile while being photographed.
@_s-p-e-c-t-r-a_music_
2 жыл бұрын
Poetic.
@haydentravis3348
2 жыл бұрын
Now we all hide the pain on reflex.
@Antney-u6j
Жыл бұрын
I saw research which suggested that people who smiled in early photographs were clinically insane. (Watch A Million Ways to Die in the West.)
@Antney-u6j
Жыл бұрын
Eastman, not like “East Man Kodak.”
@x808drifter
Жыл бұрын
It's because smiles aren't natural most of the time. It is a vastly learned response. Not all smiles are fake, there are legit happiness caused smiles. But not of them are just that 100% fake.
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